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It has been argued that the higher energy efficiency, largely as a result of the sudden deceleration of heavy industries, is only temporary.

Largely because China is not quite ready to dismantle labor-intensive industries that still provide much-needed jobs at home.

The amount of enjoyment you receive from your career, in fact, will be largely determined by how much commitment you give it.

This failure largely reflects the high profits to be gained and the poor state of regulation across the economy.

Scientists in our day have largely abandoned the notion of a Creator as an unnecessary hypothesis, or at least an untestable one.

But Japan's public is not ready to support greater spending on defence that has, since the war, largely been outsourced to the US, he says.

After all, he had been a largely passive vice-president and before that an unexceptional state governor.

And yet Mr Sarkozy has bolstered the momentum of his reforms thanks to three largely unrelated factors.

Soldiers are questioning how much they'll use digital chem lights in Afghanistan's mountainous, largely-rural terrain.

The angst of a decade ago, when it seemed that Germany might be the new sick man of Europe, has largely gone.

He shows, however, that entropy also is a measure of fairness, an insight that seems to have been largely missed over the years, he said.

It's a view that no doubt would have been met with astonishment in Arab capitals, where America's image remains largely negative.

Pier-decks are largely the resort of the old, who sit in cardigans out of the wind and watch the young passing.

Albert's killing, like most of the youth murders in Chicago, took place in the poor and largely African-American south side of the city.

But I have no doubt that the first council president's success or failure will depend largely on those three factors.

Beliveau largely relied on the "kindness of strangers" as he made his way through unfamiliar territories.

Charles Darwin himself suspected the wind of being a fickle and inefficient messenger, and that view has largely held until this day.

So far these revolts have appeared to be largely secular in character. Westerners have been quietly relieved by that.

The aim of the Dump Analyzer is to provide an environment that has already been largely set up in which specific analysis modules can run.

Senator Obama fought back with criticisms of the Bush administration's policies, which he said Senator McCain has largely supported.

As long as Barack Obama is president, the composition of any new White House economic team may be largely irrelevant.

The size of a woman's stomach depends largely on her surroundings.

Then the news of the Greek problems with their high external debt, largely owned by the German and French banks, began to appear.

Parker largely escaped Bowerman's wrath, partly because he was an actual athlete, but mostly because he was that good.

Up to this point in the article, we've been explaining how LMS and Workplace Collaborative Learning are largely the same.

Exercise and good nutrition do seem to be protective, but a person's risk is largely determined by genes.

Ajax, while powerful, has not been as quickly adopted among the enterprise development community largely due to its unstructured nature.

His reputation is largely inherited from his mother, revered for her probity.

The only drug they received was the single dose of nevirapine when they went into labor, largely for the sake of their babies.

It's an intelligent question, the answer to which will largely determine whether the current slowdown turns into a worldwide slump.

During the early years of his reign, he was largely aided by his grandmother, the Grand Empress Dowager, Xiaozhuang.

He was raised largely by his mother, who he said could be abusive, according to several news media accounts over the years.

The parallel (pun intended! ) between the two technologies is largely due to the compositional nature of the latter.

Meanwhile, talk of bail-outs for newspapers of the kind seen in the banking and automotive industries have been largely ruled out in the US.

The new leader built largely the moment he took charge of the company.

Although the children had individual mothers, they were largely cared for by the group as much as by their original mother.

Reid assembled the founding team, drawing largely from his prior startups, with a few other folks he'd known for a long time.

The interviewer is going to ask you questions based largely on your resume.

Terrace, portrayed as a sort of heartless Dr Doolittle in the film, still largely stands by his ghastly experiment.

By using largely standardised medical terms and conditions, the contents of the database are easy to compare and analyse.

One factor, and only one factor, predicted how largely accomplished the students were, and that was how much they practiced.

A month ago it looked as if Mrs Clinton had the black vote sewn up, thanks largely to residual affection for her husband.

Fortunately the nearby Huaca de la Luna seems to have been more important to the Moche and has remained largely intact.

But, he said the decline in imports would be largely because of the fall in prices of industrial materials.

Edgell also maintains that atheists seem to be outside the limits of American morality, which has largely been defined by religion.

The result was a marketing effort that largely relied on an enthusiastic customer base to share their love of the company and its products.

Russia's liberals argue that the rapid growth is largely due to windfalls from the run-up in world prices of Russia's oil and gas exports.

Therefore, he said, discussions at the meeting will focus largely on expanding agricultural trade with China.

Only rare bursts of gunfire could be heard at the entrance to Gori, and the Russians seem to have captured the city largely unopposed.

Different emphasis is given by different companies, depending largely on how much of their business is China-related .

The army, led by Alawite officers but made up of a largely Sunni corps, has never been trusted by the regime.

For a politician whose rise to prominence was largely built upon his powers as an orator, Obama is well versed in the arts of speech-making.

Preserved largely intact, according to Jane's involvement in the length of their burial into a long and Jane in the short Jane in the next.

This has been an unexpected phenomenon, as it has been a story largely unheralded by the western media.

Much of that spending has been slow to generate significant returns and is therefore considered to be largely unsustainable, Zhao said.

But Mr Brown had become good friends with Ms Rowling, largely through his wife, Sarah, and their families have spent much time together.

I wasn't ashamed of it. I craved, however, something different from the largely asphalt landscape I grew up in.

One of the wildest and most inaccessible parts of the United States is the Everglades where wildlife is abundant and largely protected.

The complex had been largely pre-sold, but when the bottom fell out of the market buyers refused to pay up.

Regulation, of the kind the financial sector is now experiencing, is largely irrelevant to expanding the number of jobs.

It's easy to think they might go largely unnoticed but I'm sure this is not the case. I just do my own thing and try not to bother anybody.

NA: At a certain point the "Warhol" films began to be directed, wholly or largely, by your friend and fellow Factory worker Paul Morrissey.

But since the bigwigs probably account for under 1% of the total compensation at those banks this would be a largely symbolic move.

Even the "third-year effect" can largely be explained by the central bank's reluctance to rock the boat towards the end of a presidency.

These operated to the disadvantage of the South, a largely agricultural area, which had to pay high prices for imports.

The bank's quarterly report on China was largely upbeat on the short-term prospects for the economy, despite recent fears of a hard landing.

A taxi driver, who has a day job as a clerk in a government institution, said he and many colleagues have largely stopped going to work.

But the units of the regular army that defected seem to have stayed largely out of the fray, leaving the fighting to untrained youths.

The largely peaceful protesters called for the resignation of Abhisit Vejjajiva, just five months after he took office.

The largely unseen presence of that huge Turkish garrison is enough to dampen the optimism of many Greek-Cypriots.

Availability of these elements will be largely be controlled by Chinese suppliers for at least the next several years.

Porsche seems to have stuck to its evolution styling philosophy and has kept the Cayenne largely as it currently is.

VRML continued to putter along, mostly in research contexts, but failed to take hold and was largely written off by the Web community.

The scope of a review will largely determine the extent to which studies included in a review are diverse.

Efforts to get Beijing to live up to its responsibility as a key stakeholder in the global economy have been largely unsuccessful.

"Copyright has largely been the domain of lawyers and of creatives, or professionals like teachers, " he said.

Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit.

And whereas Lehman's exposures were hidden from public view, Greece's are largely out in the open and are also reasonably easy to value.

The decrease, he says, is largely the result of China's attempts to burnish its international image in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.

The body's requirements for water vary, as it can depend largely on how much water is lost with normal daily activities.

Living abroad has largely lightened my attachment to places and things and made me realize how much it is the people that matter.

An official with a team of international observers from the Carter Center, David Carroll, said the polling was largely calm.

At this point, it looks like Google is forging ahead with its own structured data standards - and largely ignoring microformats.

In an industry largely devoid of any sense of the ridiculous, he was usually an exception.

After Kant, philosophy largely severed its ties with theology, and, with that, the question of evil receded.

Largely because their reactions to what you truly think mean more to you and involve more risk.

SCAMPI defines a practice as fulfilled if it is at least "largely implemented. "

Stan's buildings are largely hollow, with just a few structural supports - also made from the toothpicks he buys direct from a wholesaler.

The substantial rise since the beginning of the year largely reflects the impact of higher energy and food prices.

As a small but growing business, our choice of angel was based largely on the sort of practical assistance they were offering.

The old you will largely disappear and a beautiful Being emerges that will be ready to ascend.

He said that 'within a year or so residential housing problems should be largely behind us. '

But policy makers, pundits and, I'm sorry to say, many economists decided, largely for political reasons, to forget what they used to know.

Physical over-exertion seems to be one of the main factors in prolonging illness, says Robinson, so it largely depends what your job is.

Mr. Paulson's firm focuses on largely liquid investments, or those that are relatively easy to sell without pushing prices much lower.

After earning a degree in engineering, he took ajob with a government agency, largely to please his parents.

Since the recession threw their budgets into turmoil, many states have decided to imprison fewer people, largely to save money.

While the activities within those disciplines might be largely automated, the interactions between them often are not.

Hence, the financial world soon worked out that this was largely a symbolic move meant for an audience of politicians, not investors.

Bear Stearns collapsed largely because other institutions stopped doing business with it, fearing it might be in trouble.

Precision in the method is governed largely by the extent to which atmospheric moisture is excluded from the system.

Muslims farther south, across the largely ungoverned Sahara desert, might be indoctrinated, trained and sent back to Europe.

There used to be a horde of startups trying to enter this market but the energy is largely gone.

The size of a woman 's stomach depend largely on her surroundings .

For the mitigation side of the equation [trying to reduce climate change] the science has largely been done in developed countries.

But it has been a struggle, largely thanks to the Byzantine nature of the American system.

It has been a function of pricing for DRAM, and that's what's contributing largely to that 67% growth this year.

To some degree, many live out these stories, largely unaware of how much the old tales may be shaping our lives.

This was done largely out of necessity, as the fiber crops that were previously used for the process were experiencing a shortage.

Although he puts himself "in the many worlds club" , which interpretation you choose to follow is largely a matter of taste, he reckons.

A few such cyber-lockers (largely out of the direct reach of American justice) now have more visitors than the top peer-to-peer sites.

He made a public apology for this error because he was largely responsible for the accident.

On Thursday, Spain's financial markets were largely down, in line with a broader sell-off across Europe.

But how the transcription machinery decides which parts of a gene to read at any particular time is still largely a mystery.

"The bill's going to be shaped largely by that process, " said the coalition's chief lobbyist, Nancy Zirkin.

People generally agreed that the children early experiences largely determined their characters.

And indeed, the country largely seems to be putting its efforts into piracy against Chinese companies.

Although markets had largely priced in a quarter-point rise by the ECB, the Bank of England move wrong-footed markets.

movements inspired largely by religious sentiments, sprang up in both Britain and the United States.

When they handed him over to be brought up largely by his grandmother they cannot have dreamt that that name would prove so apt.

But the WTO is now largely playing defense, trying to prevent a major new outbreak of protectionism.

Certainly, the bank is in better shape than its arch-rival Citigroup, having largely avoided the most toxic subprime securities.

Elsewhere is largely dry with sunny spells and just a scattering of light showers, but becoming cloudier XXX evening.

Japan's industrial belt in the centre and south of the country seems to have escaped largely unharmed.

So far, the trade relationship with China has been a minor issue on the political landscape, largely because U. S. unemployment is very low.

The five days I spent in Austria were a bit like the country: pleasant and largely uneventful.

Scientists used to think a child's family environment largely dictated his emotional development as an adult.

Think Happy Not long ago, most researchers thought you had a happiness set point that you were largely stuck with for life.

"Congress exercises this power largely through its standing committee system, " he said in a 2001 CRS report on the work of Congress.

His unpopularity seems to be owing largely to unemployment and the widening gap between rich and poor.

That problem was due largely to the fact that the coating was only a fraction of a micron (millionth of a metre) thick.

Here's a bit of news for developers: The largely undocumented URL command ?

This can be seen in the extreme case of the last stages of hyperinflation, when people largely give up using money and switch bater.

They are largely out of date, useful only to create dancing babies or to sometimes create rough transparencies.

But it was a different story across the road on its two mothballed sites, which stood largely silent.

Despite all the work you did, however, the application was no better off, largely because more single points of failure were introduced.

Spending a few years abroad, largely on the company dime, sounds almost as good as a paid vacation. Almost.

It is these countries that now must be on the front lines of reform, with the US largely working behind the scenes.

It had survived largely untouched since the collapse of communism.

Appliances are largely hidden behind wood panels and upper cabinets are minimized to produce a clean and uncluttered composition.

A law-enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said the demonstration has remained largely peaceful.

The quality of a software product is largely governed by the quality of the software process used to develop and maintain it.

The findings are not all that staggering as it can be largely attributed to the growing realisation that death is coming close.

Standards at the heart of SOA, however, have remained largely intact since the first XML web service went live.

Many developers make a habit of providing their own implementations, at least for classes that are largely data representations.

And the bonus from the collapse of energy prices a year ago for inflation and consumer pocketbooks has now largely evaporated.

This concept has largely taken account of the actual situation in Taiwan and practical interests of our compatriots there.

With a crowded, largely one-sided trade like this, any wrench in the rationale to invest in emerging markets could this trade fast.

Do that, Jian Wangwrites, and an issue that's become a central difficulty in relations between the U. S. can be largely defused.

Largely self-taught, Banneker was one of the first African Americans to gain distinction in science.

But a visit to any bar in a major financial centre would confirm that these barriers are largely down .

The convention of putting a European in the job, which had become a largely symbolic tradition, has now assumed much greater importance.

Unlike IQ, which changes little after our teen years, EQ seems to be largely learned.

The apparently sublime power of the volcano was largely the result of an initially supine reaction.

However, except for the elementary part, the system of Principia is no longer much used, having been largely superseded by set theory.

The difficulty in distinguishing variable species is largely due to the varieties mocking , as it were, other species of the same genus.

It's actually not coming from Yahoo and AOL, and Microsoft, and MSN, whose consumer traffic is sort of largely stable.

And banks' liquidity problems are largely the result of money funds' recent reluctance to hold their debt.

Such a configuration is not uncommon, largely because a daemon does not impose great overhead.

Hamas has largely abided by a ceasefire for more than a year but says talks with Israelwould be a waste of time.

The executive said the latest strong number was largely an 'echo' of sales made before February but delivered during February.

For that it largely blames the government and is duly arguing for a more favourable regulatory regime.

Continuous writing to a disk can largely degrade the performance of a program, causing it to run slowly.

But his bench is considered a strong management team that has largely stayed out of the limelight until now.

China's reluctance to act is largely due to its close relationship with Pakistan, the prism through which Beijing views much of the region.

Linking together what it had previously been very disparate little settlement that had to be largely self-sufficient.

My solo ride south from Shanghai was, as ever, a learning experience, and largely uneventful even when passing through Hangzhou.

Racial fractures did not disappear with apartheid, and the followers of political parties can still largely be divided into black and white.

The distribution between the currency and deposit components of money depends largely on the preferences of the public.

But, for the moment, this difficult, abstract issue is largely obscured by the urgency of finding practical solutions to rising food prices.

Viewed from the front, the iPad 2 looks largely the same as its predecessor, aside from the addition of a small camera.

This shows the poor have largely missed out on the gains made when the economy was expanding, Parrott said.

But if keeping up with the Wangs is India's economic motive force, the rivalry seems to be largely one-sided.

The difference between anarchy-capitalists and other libertarians is largely one of the degree to which they take this axiom.

So, while you think about plenty of status codes, you can largely ignore the redirection codes altogether.

"Day-of-the-week stereotypes like Monday morning blues and Thank God It's Friday are largely illusions, " he said.

Your levels of health and fitness on the outside are largely determined by the way you think about your health and fitness on the inside.

Texans largely support gun ownership, despite the fact that the state has experienced mass murders of its own.

This tax would be a body blow to the Wall Street speculators while leaving middle-class investors largely unaffected.

Choosing whether to go to Spain or to Latin America, Raines adds, largely depends on your feelings about risk.

Of all that we have inherited from the nineteenth century, only certain axioms about time have passed largely unquestioned.

The EU has long been trying to unite a fragmented system that is still largely organised around national boundaries.

In the end, however, the damage was largely contained to a suspension of military exchanges that lasted nearly a year.

The president in Israel is head of state but a largely ceremonial post, representing the country at ceremonies around the world.

Strong growth is largely due to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects and an expansionary fiscal policy focused on infrastructure.

Because labor demand tends to be more elastic than labor supply, a payroll tax falls largely on employees.

"Amidst the frenzy of getting stadiums and transport routes built, the carbon footprint was largely ignored, " he said.

Elephant poaching largely takes place in central Africa, where poverty and political instability are rife.

It is generally accepted that the experiences of the child in his first years largely determine his character and later personality.

In some regions, the increase in desert areas is occurring largely as the result of a trend toward drier climatic conditions.

Italians or Germans form a largely homogeneous society, white, Christian, and speaking one language, Americans do not.

I think Miami is largely where it was a year ago on this front.

Yet those failures can largely be chalked up to a steep technology learning curve, industry watchers say.

The company supposed to operate it for 30 years just pulled out of the deal, largely because Cape Town doesn't need another stadium.

Giuly equalised and Vucinic gave Roma the lead after a match which had been largely dominated by Pirlo and company.

In its policy advice, even the OECD seems to believe this is largely a financial crisis and one that may be overcome in quite short order.

Countries like Brazil, India, and China came out of the recession largely unscathed.

Great Britain's air force and, to a lesser extent, her ground and sea forces were largely pinned down to the defense of her home country.

It's largely a story of the American affection for information monopolists and the consequences of that fondness.

But elsewhere, storage development has usually occurred in a piecemeal fashion, largely through local initiatives and with minimal planning.

It is not difficult to see, whether a person is happy or not, largely depends on two aspects.

The latter were largely the result of the crisis: governments let fiscal deficits rise, as the private sector savagely retrenched.

The criticisms in the reading are largely the result of prejudice against and ignorance about how far online encyclopedias have come.

Locke's participation in modern scientific advances was largely the result of his close ties with Robert Boyle.

Three years of financial recovery have made Iceland more affordable, with consumer prices now largely pegged to the euro.

Or at least it is as utopian as any community largely dependent on government and corporate financing can be.

The opacity of SWFs has been a key focus of western critics, who fear politically driven investment decisions by largely autocratic states.

Ever since then, periodic efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile.

In this reform, the general target of the subject "welfare" was kept, while its curriculum was adjusted largely.

However, most companies said the impact would be felt largely in the second quarter.

For a long time, though, Mr. Okun was uncomfortable with the connection, largely because his mother disapproved.

However, the wind turbine design is largely dependent on the wind turbine aerodynamic performance.

In regard to capitalism, we observe first that it was obedience to its principles that contributed so largely to England's failure.

All this can be done remotely and largely in an automated fashion, with little or no hands-on intervention required.

In interviews and speeches she was a sharp if largely unheeded critic of the West's economic, political and spiritual failings.

"I think unfettered is unforgivable and oil futures markets, particularly offshore, are largely unfettered, " he said.

He has no KGB background and, within the Kremlin, has steered largely clear of the Yukos affair.

Whether a person likes sports or not depends largely upon his temperament.

'It's largely a question of what we bring to the table. If we move into a shopping mall we attract customers to the mall, ' he says.

Over the centuries quyi has blossomed into many different forms which, like the popular theater, are largely regional.

The term "pancake people" is largely seen as a negative commentary on the current age of instantaneous information.

The behavior of a man is largely conditioned by his environment and education.

Brain cancer, in its various guises, claims more than 3, 500 lives a year in the UK alone, and its causes are largely unknown.

Both France and Britain have already all but stopped buying Iranian crude, suggesting the move may turn out to be largely symbolic.

But essentially their argument is a simple one. The great continent to the south is still largely unknown.

England largely depends on other countries for her food supplies.

He said CEOs of failed companies 'have largely gone unscathed' even as shareholders suffered huge losses.

These divisions are largely concealed by an even more obvious division within the Republican party itself.

Up to now it has been largely expressed through your mass consciousness, and has created the conditions and experiences you are having now.

The move had echoes of the Bank of Japan's long-running, largely unsuccessful zero interest-rate policy.

Moreover, the belief that Wall Street needs to be preserved largely as it is now is mainly a consequence of fear.

We worked directly with their board members on a detailed study of how they need to slowly back out of a largely coal-fired utility.

Although largely subtle they all add up to make the experience so much more varied and alive.

Screen composition is not complicated, largely interspersed in a line change, so the total is rich in simple in view.

The Process Management Principle: The quality of a product is largely governed by the quality of the process used to build it.

The question of what a PP government would do in office remains largely unanswered.

But Bono likes to stop and point out what works on this continent, largely because he's plunged himself into so much sadness.

And mastery seems to be achieved largely through work.

Cellulosic ethanol can be derived from inedible crops like switchgrass, but the technology is still largely confined to the laboratory.

Dutfield said the approval of the agenda came largely thanks to the persistence of the Friends of Development.

China's smartphone market up to now has been largely high-end, and Apple and Samsung rank near the top.

If the students had not been moved by your speech, they wouldn't be so largely motivated now.

Since the fall of Baghdad, the so-called blood Koran has stayed largely out of sight - locked away behind three vaulted doors.

Whether a person like sports or not depend largely upon his temperament.

Investors like the idea that death, like destruction, should be largely uncorrelated with the vagaries of financial markets.

At the age of twenty-six, Dostoevsky became active in socialist circles, largely because of his opposition to the institution of serfdom.

The club have remained largely silent throughout the process - has that been a deliberate ploy?

"It is largely in the interests of both countries given the pressure coming on them to take action, to really come together, " he said.

Poor, barren and largely neglected by the government, West Bengal's tribal areas are just the sort of place where Naxalites thrive.

Among Hindus, at least, this may be largely because homosexuality is considered a threat to family life.